Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Norway and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Colin Newman to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Kevin Saunderson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Malaria!,
cv313,
Judy Mowatt,
Suburban Knight,
Mark Hollis,
Alice Coltrane,
Animal Collective,
Barrington Levy,
Suicide,
Bang On A Can,
Bill Wells,
Y Pants,
Infiniti,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funky Four + One,
Dark Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Young Rascals,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Banda Bassotti,
Ultravox,
The Litter,
T.S.O.L.,
Arcadia,
Silicon Teens,
Nirvana,
Gang Starr,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joyce Sims,
Tears for Fears,
Negative Approach,
Lucky Dragons,
The Leaves,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jacob Miller,
Unrelated Segments,
Clear Light,
Kas Product,
Sister Nancy,
Scott Walker,
David Axelrod,
Ituana,
Eric Dolphy,
Moebius,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Durutti Column,
Los Fastidios,
Jerry's Kids,
Byron Stingily,
The Flesh Eaters,
Derrick May,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
MDC,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.